> Also, it's broken, broken, broken on Plan 9 but could you describe what antisocial behavior it exhibits and how one could reproduce this behavior? i have never used to-disk paging on plan 9, so i don't know.
> and nobody wants to fix it. this has been a good discussion so far. let's not go off in a bad direction. > The upside to this is that we can just say how we don't want it anyway, > there's no conceivable reason anyone would want swap, and operating > systems with working swap suck ;) not sure how to parse this. is there a particular case where you need to-disk paging? i don't see the use of to-disk paging. perhaps my vision is limited. in the one case where i might find it useful -- in embedded systems, there's typically more ram than persistant storage, so paging to "disk" makes no sense. - erik
